CR.A/518/1999

NEUTRAL CITATION R/CR.A/518/1999 JUDGMENT DATED: 14/11/2025 2025:GUJHC:65458-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 518 of 1999 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MS. JUSTICE GITA GOPI and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK ========================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No No ========================================== STATE OF GUJARAT Versus ANIL NARAYAN PUWAR ========================================== Appearance: MR HARDIK MEHTA APP for the Appellant(s) No. 1 MR PV PATADIYA(5924) for the Respondent(s) No. 1 ========================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MS. JUSTICE GITA GOPI and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Date : 14/11/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER : HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK) 1. The appellant - State of Gujarat has preferred this appeal under Section 378(1)(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 against the judgment and order dated 12.03.1998 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Panchmahal at Godhra (hereinafter be referred to as “the trial Court”) in Sessions Case No.292 of 1996, whereby the trial Court has acquitted the accused from the offences punishable un